Not all blue suits are created equal, as Prince Harry and Ascot prove Time was when a young fellow would be marched to his father’s tailor – or, in my case, to Slaters in Stirling – and briskly measured up for his first suit, and I’d wager that yours was navy.
The trusty old shade was the favourite by a mile in suiting, at once smart but invisible, corporate but not as funereal as black.
Navy is neat, office appropriate, fall-in-line. Which made it all the more eyebrow-raising when Ascot declared last week that navy morning suits would be permitted in the Royal Enclosure.
Surely that most ubiquitous shade was already in the dress code? Apparently not. Because of the very nature of navy being considered citified and desk-bound, only black
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